Rolfslake Friday night match 9th July 2013

Two PB’s in tonight match

Tonight saw the last of the current set of 6 nights matches and with that 12 hardy anglers turned up to experience Rolfslakes fishing in the dark. With draw called at 7.15 all the anglers wanted to draw the feature pegs 34,9,7 and 8 as they were black with fish and with the visting anglers drawing first all these pegs went straight away and when Paul, John and I went to draw there was only 10,32 and 30 left so i went in and got rid of 32 for them leaving John on 30 and Paul on 10 in no carp bay.

The story of the match was after a slow start with the anglers losing a few fish Simon Watkins on peg 8 was starting to catch from all his lines so was pulling away from the rest with Ernie on peg 34 adding fish to his net on a regular basis, as i had to endure the sight of John on peg 30 starting to catch fishing tight to the edge on paste on his top kit plus one.

As it got dark there were more people starting to catch but all i see were the anglers in the middle bowl catching and losing fish with Paul J losing more than most so it looked to be very close after Simon on peg 8.

The winner tonight was Simon Watkins who had his mate Gino for company on peg 7 and Simon fished a very tidy match catching from lines both out and tight to the edge with big fish to double figures gracing his landing net on a regular basis and after 5 hours weighed 229-11 for not only the match win but a new PB {well done Simon }.

Also setting a new PB was lake regular Toby Pope on peg 40 who caught down to his right hand margins to record his top weight to date of 148-09 { well done Toby }.

The anglers would also like to thank Pauline Bennett for preparing the food after the match which was my appreciated by the guys.

John expects to be running a few more night matches in August so look out if you fancy having a go.

Battle royal in the big lake.

Tonight i had the pleasure of fishing next to John Bennett on end peg 30 on the car park bank so that meant only one thing plenty of banter or not as John had hurt his arm so i was going to fish against a one armed angler . As i was still annoyed at last week by being beaten by 7lb and falling another point behind one thing was for sure i was going to go for it tonight fishing on peg 32 and hopefully get a few fish down the track.

The story of the night was that i struggled whilst it was still light as John managed a few big 15-16lb carp fishing down the edge so i was already playing catch up but i was not concerned as i was feeding a line down the gap towards peg 8 so i knew i would catch down there later. That idea was totally blown out of the water as when the light were turned on the lights from peg 8 and 9 were pointed towards me and i could not see a thing so i had to fish to my right and only caught a few fish.

John however was catching regular big fish down the edge and was pulling further away with his big weighers compared to my small 10lb fish and i recon i was about 60lb behind then a stroke of luck as the mist came down and some how dulled down the lights on the opposite bank and that was my cue to fish down the gap and jackpot the fish were still there and in the last hour and a half i was coming back at John catching my fish on paste and with 4 minutes to go hooked and landed a fish of 14lb whilst in the same time John hooked and lost two carp which meant it was going to be very close.

At the weigh in John had 120lb on the board and after his net fish weighed in 166-01 and my board weight went 110lb and added to my net fish they went 171-14 to just beat John by 5-13 but more importantly a point back on a very good nights battle.

John 8

Eddie 6

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie